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Engineers Create Brain-Machine Interface for Controlling Robot Exoskeleton

Posted in Science on 29th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

A team of engineers from Germany and Korea has developed a brain-machine control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton.

Alzheimers disease thought to be accelerated by an abnormal build-up of fat in the brain

Posted in Medicine on 28th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

'Our experiments suggest that these abnormal fat deposits could be a trigger for the disease'.

Laser detects brain tumour cells during surgery

Posted in Medicine on 27th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Surgeons in London have used lasers to diagnose abnormal tissue during an operation to remove a brain tumor for the first time in Europe.

The rise of intelligence enhancement

Posted in Science on 27th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Modafinil, which is typically used to treat sleep disorders, is a cognitive enhancer. Essentially, it can help normal people think better.

Aphantasia: A life without mental images

Posted in Medicine on 26th Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Most people can readily conjure images inside their head, But now scientists have described a condition, aphantasia, in which some people are unable to visualise mental images.